RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from December.

Canadian retailer Metro has partnered with startup Bringg to use its solution for delivery and fulfilment orchestration and offer the likes of contactless grocery delivery and curbside pickup.

Online electricals retailer, AO, is to use Microsoft Dynamics 365 to manage its finance, supply chain and commerce operations.

US startup AiFi has opened what is pitched as the largest hybrid computer vision only store with a cashier option.

A joint partnership with an unnamed company, the 4,000-square foot convenience store is stocked with 2,000 SKUs ranging from fresh meats to snacks.

Named AI Go, which means love shopping in Chinese, it is located in Shanghai and is the largest of four stores in the city now powered by AiFi’s computer vision technology. 

French fashion brand TrueTribe is using SUKU’s blockchain platform to provide transparency into a product's journey from raw materials through to sale.

The first garments to be tracked in this way, clothes that began life as nylon waste such as discarded fishing nets and fabric scraps, were shipped to Browns Fashion in London during November.

Benetton Group has re-partnered with retail market intelligence venture EDITED as part of its upcoming three-year strategy.

With real-time data on over 140k retailers and brands, EDITED’s platform will allow the retailer to benchmark itself against key competitors. 

It uses AI, analytics, and image and text recognition to understand pricing, discounts, assortments and trends across the apparel, beauty and homeware industries. 

De'Longhi and Kenwood have announced a customer intelligence partnership with Uncrowd.

This will see them tapping the UK startup’s Friction/Reward Indexing analytics platform.

Checkout.com has been appointed as online payments provider to The Hut Group.

The deal covers the retailer’s MyProtein, Lookfantastic, Glossybox, Coggles and AllSole brands and over 200 other e-commerce sites in its portfolio. 

Zôdio has rolled out Openbravo’s PoS solution to its 20 stores in France.

Best Buy has placed a SEK 107 million order to continue deploying Pricer's electronic shelf labels (ESL) system in 119 stores.

M&S has launched a new, on-the-spot payment solution to help relieve queues at the checkouts this Christmas.

Available at 200 of the retailer’s stores, this allows staff members to pick out customers waiting in line to pay for just a few items, and process their transaction via a handheld Honeywell device. 

L.K.Bennett has selected Origin from Retail247 as its PIM platform.

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